Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1dcd72f62c4cd5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-05-03 21:59:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: b2728d610963de8a5ebaab07ee43b0f3 SHA-1: 8ff05911af7a0bef8be2d60edb699067e328bb5c SHA-256: a1dcd72f62c4cd5b63d3895d5f317379216aba3d75031d08fc90c41043e41ce5
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content or for SEO manipulation. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution capabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c393d14a1---tupodumopifazazi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855fcd957c5---40982867062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ccb6aa65c3---58520595008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35cd7939e29aaa71bc8d7cc1e9ad1b5e/68988167802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a17c8de81444c979f25f96c71e62fc11/93831811190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fe4dc00353df0a857188034c3958bb8/vozobafapebiragamekegobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084cc2ece2d0---11207000182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a97bba573---4031463396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ad51e90cf---vuzed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d4d7158a0---denadedetuxixirumez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bv7bfa2vt9blpl9pmghukfe9l4/13670143700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbce5b5738c4150f82160bc26a9ed572/54274208378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607906c8060aa---29927369782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6c029d867---sovelababejesonox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d66426a2e6fa710d574cf866de166466/widemofepojofix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=buku+bahtsul+masail+nu+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d83a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD83A 5440 bytes
SHA-256: ed6e60b81b8beee1bbc8d414efc1b77a7865839548eca9e7379a503ba430ffdd
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA99 10708 bytes
SHA-256: ba2737c958fb47dd1821336b075de2a276f1b6484051445a99df2ed8d59a316d